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authorTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2016-04-04 10:26:15 +1000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2016-04-08 00:16:56 +0100
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note for detecting crypt() on Cygwin
(cherry picked from commit dfe3adb55fc27cfdbdea35190eb5023e786b1466)
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@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.
Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to Cygwin.
+As of libcrypt 1.3 (March 2016), you will need to install the
+libcrypt-devel package for Configure to detect crypt().
+
=item * C<-lgdbm_compat> (C<use GDBM_File>)
GDBM is available for Cygwin.